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 Hilton Chicago, Chicago, IL Hosted by the DuSable Museum of African American History TOURS **To register for the tours, please include the cost of the tour with your conference registration, and indicate which day, time and tour you wish to take.** Wednesday, August 27 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Black Metropolis/Pullman Porter Great Migration Blues Trail Tour $55.00 per person (Includes transportation) Tour departs from the Hilton Chicago Hotel at 2:00 p.m. Deadline to register: August 22 In keeping with AAAM’s 2008 conference theme, Reflect, Reinvest, and Revitalize, the Restoring Bronzeville Tour is perfect! Wrapped in authentic African American history, the tour focuses on Black Chicago. Visit historic Bronzeville’s landmark buildings and other tourism related business destinations that have been launched in the past decade. With a step on bus tour guide this tour focuses on the greater south side of Chicago and Highlights: The Great Migration Story and encompasses the King Drive Walk of Fame, Johnson Publications, the Great Migration Statue & Story, Ritz Hotel – home to Earl “Fatha” Hines, Quinn Chappell and more. A souvenir-shopping stop at the Bronzeville Visitor Information Center, and on to the Bronzeville Children’s Museum. The tour concludes with a pre-Labor Day “outdoor bash” with all the trimmings at the A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum, America’s first black labor history museum, 4:00 -6:00 p.m. Join us for a little jazz, a little libation, and some good food. “Just Enjoy Yourself!” (Click here to register for the "Black Metropolis" bus tour. Only credit card payments are accepted.) Saturday, August 30 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. or 12:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Soul Side of the Windy City Tour Adults: $35.00, Children (12 & under) $20.00 (Includes transportation) Tour departs from the DuSable Museum of African American History Deadline to register: August 27 Experience the “Soul” of the city. Leave the skyscrapers and glitz behind and journey with us through the social, political, and economic Mecca of the Black community. You will be enlightened about Chicago’s first entrepreneur, Black architecture, the birthplace of Black History Month and gospel music, Underground Railroad stations, the first open heart surgery, the first medical training facility for Black doctors & nurses, the first all-Black regiment of the US Army, the first Black heavy-weight boxing champion, Chicago’s first Black mayor, the oldest Black church in the Midwest, and the second Chicago fire, just a few of more than 40 sites. A shopper’s delight will include a stop at the “Oprah Store.” |
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